The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Secret Behind Valve's Flickering Lights
  

  graphics historical
  

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• VictoriaLogs v1.0.0 release
  

  devops release
  

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• Any Python program fits in 30 characters*
  

  python
  

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• SuperC: parsing all of C by taming the preprocessor
  

  pdf c
  

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• Protecting Signal Keys on Desktop
  

  cryptography hardware privacy
  

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• How Westwood VQA works
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• Making healthy healthchecks
  

  distributed practices
  

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• Buggy code is biased code
  

  programming
  

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• James Gleick's Chaos: The Software
  

  art historical math
  

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• Mirror: An LLM-powered programming-by-example programming language
  

  ai plt
  

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• Going a Little Further
  

  practices
  

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• Exploring Effect in TypeScript: Simplifying Async and Error Handling
  

  javascript
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Stop Making Me Memorize The Borrow Checker
  

  rust
  

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• What To Use Instead of PGP
  

  cryptography security
  

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• A Linux Desktop for the family
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing Prometheus 3.0
  

  devops release
  

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• A rustc soundness bug in the wild
  

  rust
  

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• Cycling while typing
  

  hardware
  

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• You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths
  

  web
  

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• In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, 1928–2024
  

  compsci culture person plt
  

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• I've been working on a borrow checker for C... (also makes sure you `free`) (context in post text)
  

  c
  

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• Dusting off Dreamcast Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• go-safeweb: Secure-by-default HTTP servers in Go
  

  go security web
  

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• AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
  

  historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What RSS reader do you use?
  

  ask web
  

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• I sent an ethernet packet
  

  c hardware networking
  

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• Binary vector embeddings are so cool
  

  ai performance
  

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• Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout
  

  programming
  

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• curl -v google.com
  

  video satire
  

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• The Design of a Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting POSIX Shell
  

  pdf c unix
  

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• Algorithms we develop software by
  

  practices
  

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• OpenGL is not right-handed
  

  graphics
  

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• Use std::span instead of C-style arrays
  

  c++
  

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• The peculiar world of Gentoo package testing
  

  linux testing
  

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• The CVM Algorithm
  

  databases
  

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• Safety in TigerBeetle
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• XMPP: The Forgotten Gem of Instant Messaging
  

  networking
  

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• The Big Array Size Survey for C
  

  c
  

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• How to Learn: Userland Disk I/O
  

  databases
  

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• gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"
  

  programming
  

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• peer to peer but mostly the main peer (2022)
  

  historical networking
  

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• A Science of Concurrent Programs
  

  book formalmethods
  

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• FreeBSD 2024 Q3 Status Report
  

  freebsd
  

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• Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• CORAL: a Rust-like Borrow Checker for C
  

  c plt programming rust
  

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• Yellow Scream (2024)
  

  art
  

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• Emulator of Odra 1003/1013, Polish mainframes of the 1960s
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Perhaps Rust needs "defer"
  

  c rust
  

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• How WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines
  

  javascript security
  

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• The rise of advanced build systems
  

  devops nix
  

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• getopt() but smaller
  

  c
  

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• Fruit Credits: a personal accounting app based on hledger
  

  finance linux release
  

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• Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch
  

  c databases
  

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• Why Podia doesn’t use review apps anymore
  

  programming
  

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• ShareMyScreen - see how J experts write a program
  

  apl
  

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• Reliable Immutable Transfer Protocol
  

  networking
  

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• GoToSocial WASM-based SQLite driver and BSD
  

  freebsd netbsd
  

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• Lyceum - An MMO game written in Erlang + Zig (+ Raylib)
  

  erlang
  

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